Forget takeaway, Callum Hann’s chicken curry recipe is now one of our weekly easy dinner ideas. Serve with rice, fluffy naan and his singly tzatziki for the ultimate curry night.

Korma is one of those please-all Indian curries. Everyone (except vegetarians), will pounce on a big bowl of this chicken one, and even then you could swap the chicken out for sweet potato or pumpkin (winter squash). Prepare for your kitchen to smell delicious. The green apple I’ve added to the tzatziki gives it a little extra zing.

Recipe and image from I’d Eat That by Callum Hann, photography by Alan Benson. Published by Murdoch Books, RRP $24.99.

Method
1. In a large bowl, stir together the yoghurt, garlic, ginger, coriander stems and 2 teaspoons of the garam masala.

2. Cut each chicken thigh into nine pieces then stir into the yoghurt mixture, cover with plastic wrap and marinate in the fridge for at least 30 minutes, or ideally for 1–3 hours, if you have time.

3. If you are making rice, start it just before you start cooking the korma.

4. Heat a large heavy-based saucepan over a high heat. Add the canola oil, then the onion and capsicum and stir for 3–5 minutes, or until the onion starts to turn golden brown.Add the tomato paste,curry powder, salt and the remaining garam masala, and cook for a further 2–3 minutes, stirring frequently, before adding the chicken and yoghurt mixture.

5. Cook for 8–13 minutes, stirring often, or until the yoghurt has started to brown and the chicken has just cooked through (piping hot flesh with no sign of pink in the juices).Turn the heat off.

6. Meanwhile, make the tzatziki (omitting the dill in the recipe). Roughly chop half the coriander leaves and stir them through the tzatziki with the grated apple.

7. Stir the frozen peas through the korma.The second they have warmed through in the korma, put the taztziki in the middle of the table with the rice or naan bread.

My Kitchen Rules winners Dan and Steph have been trimming down – losing over 20kgs in 7 weeks combined! How did they do it? They’ve been on the Bodytrim system and they’re sharing another of their favourite Bodytrim recipes, a quick dinner idea that’s probably one of your stand-by takeaway meals, but now you can make it in less time – and healthier – than your favourite Indian restaurant.

“We are suckers for a good old curry, they are just so delicious! Ginger, garlic, coconut, coriander…there’s just no better combo! Use salt-reduced stock though so you can control the saltiness. Why not even try making your own red curry paste, it’s so easy and you know what’s gone into it! You can even have a crack at some cauliflower rice or cauliflower purée. Yummy!”

You don’t get more definitively Malaysian than this classic Nyonya dish. It is the mainstay of every Malaysian pot luck dinner and the most outrageously out of place character at our Christmas buffet table, but there it always is right next to the ham. Hilarious! The first time I made this and it worked, I jumped around like a lunatic, I was so happy. I felt like I had conjured magic, to make a dish like this and have it hitting all those familiar notes of home – Poh Ling Yeow.

Serves 4-5

Ingredients

3 Tbs coconut cream

10 sprigs of curry leaves

1 star anise

2 whole cloves

1 cinnamon stick

1 1/2 kg chicken thigh fillets

500g baby chat potatoes, peeled, halved and parboiled

2 bird’s eye chillies deseeded and halved lengthways

500ml coconut milk

1 Tbs salt

1 tsp sugar

Rempah (wet spice paste)

3 Tbs ground coriander

1 tsp ground cumin

1 tsp ground fennel

15 dried long red chillies*, deseeded, soaked in boiling water until soft, drained and chopped

20g belacan

25g fresh turmeric root, peeled and sliced

3 cloves garlic, peeled, sliced

270g red eschallots OR Spanish onion, peeled, sliced

1/3 cup vegetable oil

Method

1. To make the rempah, blend the rempah ingredients until you achieve a fine paste.

2. Heat heavy based saucepan or wok, to a medium heat. Add rempah, coconut cream, curry leaves, star anise, cloves and cinnamon stick and saute for about 10 minutes. You will know the paste is ready when it thickens, darkens in colour and the oil begins to separate from the mixture. Add chicken pieces and stir-fry for 1 minute. Add potatoes, chillies, coconut milk, salt and sugar. Cover and simmer until chicken and potatoes are cooked through.

2. Serve with steamed jasmine rice or roti canai.

Notes: There are several types of dried chillies. For this recipe please choose the type that are about finger sized. The smaller ones are very hot and the broader, larger ones mild. Also please never replace dried chillies with fresh ones as they don’t impart the smokiness of flavour and depth of colour required for this dish.

Chicken curry is one of Australia’s favourite dishes, but you haven’t had curry until you’ve tried this classic Malaysian Nyonya curry by celebrity chef and Malaysia Kitchen Australia ambassador Poh Ling Yeow.

Preparation Time: 30 minutes Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients – serves 5-6

3 Tbs coconut cream

10 sprigs of curry leaves

1 star anise

2 whole cloves

1 cinnamon stick

1 1/2 kg chicken thigh fillets

500g baby chat potatoes, peeled, halved and parboiled

2 bird’s eye chillies deseeded and halved lengthways

500ml coconut milk

1 Tbs salt

1 tsp sugar

Rempah (wet spice paste)

3 Tbs ground coriander

1 tsp ground cumin

1 tsp ground fennel

15 dried long red chillies, deseeded, soaked in boiling water until soft, drained and chopped

20g belacan

25g fresh turmeric root, peeled and sliced

3 cloves garlic, peeled, sliced

270g red eschallots OR Spanish onion, peeled, sliced

1/3 cup vegetable oil

Method

1. To make the rempah, blend the rempah ingredients until you achieve a fine paste.

2. Heat heavy based saucepan or wok, to a medium heat. Add rempah, coconut cream, curry leaves, star anise, cloves and cinnamon stick and saute for about 10 minutes. You will know the paste is ready when it thickens, darkens in colour and the oil begins to separate from the mixture.